Dr. Okarma, who testified at our hearings, spoke of how they have taken mice who had damaged hearts, they used somatic cell nuclear transfer to take the cells of the mice, turn them into pluripotent stem cells, and then into heart cells, and then they injected those heart cells into the heart of the mouse. What happened? Those cells behaved like heart cells. They pumped blood and kept the mouse alive. All we are asking for here today is to give the people of the world, the people of this country, the same chance that the mouse had.
James P. Greenwood: “Dr. Okarma, who testified at our hearings, spoke of how they have taken mice who had damaged hearts, they used somatic…”
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Discussing the potential of stem cell research during a congressional debate.
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